His vote is always given for death.

I think he takes Saint Just as his model, and repeats his assertion, that it is only by the destruction of the enemies of France that France can be freed.
"There is a cold bloodedness about him that sets my nerves tingling.

I believe, myself, that the discovery that your father had largely reduced his stocks, and had sent the proceeds to England, decided him in either agreeing to, or bringing about, this denunciation; and that he deferred it only until he found that your mother and sister had escaped.

That freed his hands, to some extent.

Had they remained here, he would have been in a difficult position.